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How to turn "chimera" into an adjective?
I'd like to use "chimera" as an adjective.
Would that be "chimeric"? "chimeraic"? "chimeresque"?
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Dictionary shows that chimeric might be your best bet. Chimera-like would be another option. Chimeresque is certainly poetic, but would be an original (non-standard) word and possibly not understood by others.
Source(s): Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th edition - 1 decade ago
actually according to what i found, chi·mer·i·cal (kī-měr'ĭ-kəl, -mîr'-, kĭ-)
adj.
Created by or as if by a wildly fanciful imagination; highly improbable.
Given to unrealistic fantasies; fanciful.
often chimeric Of, related to, or being a chimera.
in other words it depends on how you are using the word. If you are trying the attributes of a chimera to something, then chimeric is correct, otherwise chimerical is correct.
